Sara Sutton – CEO and Founder of FlexJobs

Known as the "Queen of Remote Work," Sara Sutton has more than 20 years of experience in the online job market industry. She is the CEO and founder of FlexJobs, an innovative career website specializing in telecommuting, flexible, freelance, and part-time job listings, and founder of Remote.co, a one-stop resource for remote teams and companies, and the 1 Million for Work Flexibility initiative. Sara is also the creator of The TRaD* Works Forum, dedicated to helping companies leverage the benefits of telecommuting, remote, and distributed teams. She was named as a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum (class of 2014) for her work in technology and the employment fields.

Sara is committed to providing education and awareness about the viability and benefits of remote working and work flexibility because she believes it is a better way to work—benefiting both employees and employers, as well as families, communities, local economies, and the environment. She is a proud graduate of UC Berkeley and currently lives in Boulder, CO.

Remote work can help bring employment opportunities to people living in rural areas. FlexJobs' CEO, Sara Sutton, examines current campaigns in Colorado, Kentucky, and Utah designed to encourage remote work in rural areas.

As more companies offer flexible work arrangements, more workers are getting the opportunity to shape their schedule. FlexJobs' CEO and founder discusses the work flexibility trend with CNBC's Kelly Evans.

FlexJobs' CEO, Sara Sutton, writes an article for Virgin Pulse regarding new ways to work and the benefits of flexible working. "If implemented properly, countless case studies and surveys have shown flexible work options have fantastic results when it comes to operating costs, workforce retention, employee satisfaction, and productivity, just to name a few areas," she writes.

"In the field of flexible work, Sara Sutton’s influence is pervasive." FlexJobs' Founder and CEO, Sara Sutton, discusses the current state of flexible work and how employees and employers can work together to make workplaces flexible.

Sara Sutton, CEO & founder of FlexJobs, is featured as a female entrepreneur trailblazer shaping the future of work. "Management has to shift away from lazy management—focusing on face time as a measurement of productivity—and focus on TRUE measures of productivity like key performance indicators, deliverables, timelines, communication, and how the person contributes overall."

FlexJobs' CEO, Sara Sutton, discusses the future of work with Hub Culture at Davos 2016. "There is a real change in the definition of what work means, and companies are having to really look at how to integrate more flexibility into the workplace," Sutton tells Hub Culture. [VIDEO]

Founder and CEO of FlexJobs, Sara Sutton, talks about the future of work at Davos 2016 World Economic Forum. 'We see job opportunities in the freelance and gig economies that you wouldn’t have been able to see 15-20 years ago,” said Sara Sutton, Founder/CEO of FlexJobs.

FlexJobs' CEO, Sara Sutton, joins other business leaders at Davos to discuss the impact of digitization on the workplace. She explains, "The benefits of what digitization have allowed for the workplace can also be a downfall if you don't manage it properly, and that means both the employee managing it and the employer." [VIDEO]

As more companies adopt a remote workforce, FlexJobs' CEO offers advice on how to manage remote employees. “A lot of people don’t believe that you can be a legitimate company if you are remote and don’t have an office,” Sara Sutton, FlexJobs' CEO, tells ADP. “We wanted to highlight not only how it can work, but how it can work really, really well.”

Sara Sutton reveals how remote companies can have great cultures, and how to build a better company culture remotely. "To start, communication is one of the most critical components to a successful company and in large part because it is at the basis of its company culture. We have a very open, straight-forward, proactive communication policy," she writes.

For professionals interested in more flexibility at work, FlexJobs' CEO explains how to ask for flexible working arrangements. “[Start] by looking around at your colleagues and seeing if anyone else in the company has a flexible or alternative schedule arrangement,” Sutton tells Time.

Fast Company asks Sara Sutton to explain how companies can operate with 100% of their staff working remotely. "It’s predicted that half the workforce will be working remotely by 2020, but I believe it’s already happening informally," she tells Fast Company.

Sara Sutton, FlexJobs' founder and CEO, writes a byline for Fast Company and says it's time for the c-suite to support work-life balance through company-wide flexible work policies. "The most compelling reason for businesses and boards to pay attention? It’s good for the bottom line," writes Sutton.

Sara Sutton of FlexJobs contributes a byline to Entrepreneur, offering practical tips on implementing formalized flexible work programs. "Casual work flexibility empowers employees to better balance their work and personal lives. But could a formalized flexible work program reap benefits for a company, in addition to benefitting employees? The answer is yes," she writes.

Sara Sutton is named a Rising CEO to watch by American Express. "Embracing the work-from-home trend, FlexJobs has 15,000 jobs from companies looking for people who want to work from home. It used to be that employees asked to work from home—now some companies require it."

Sara Sutton explains the impetus behind creating FlexJobs and the importance of work flexibility in her own life. "When Sara Sutton began her search in 2006 for a flexible, professional job that would allow her to grow in her career and be a good mother, she came to a realization that would change her life: Flexible work was hard to come by."

Fortune shares FlexJobs' insight into online job scams and how job seekers can protect themselves. “If you’re asked to pay anything up front, more than likely the ‘job’ is a scam,” FlexJobs' CEO, Sara Sutton, tells Fortune. “There are also no legitimate jobs that require people to receive money, keep a portion as a ‘commission,’ and send the rest on. None. Period."

Conference Participation

For the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, remote work experts gathered to discuss building, running, and scaling remote teams of the future. Sara Sutton delivered a keynote, "Gender Equity: How Remote Work Can Move the Needle."

In June 2016 Sara Sutton created the annual TRaD Works Forum, dedicated to helping companies leverage the benefits of telecommuting, remote, and distributed teams. The event brings together remote work leaders from organizations around the globe to discuss best practices and advance remote work in modern workplaces.

In the kickoff event for Reinvent's new Future of Work series, Sara Sutton joins other esteemed panelists to help generate new ideas and insights that could help independent workers thrive in the years ahead.

Intuit invited Sara Sutton to serve as a panelist on “Beyond Uber and Lyft: New Ways to Increase Job Leads and Work,” where she shared her future of work perspective with small business owners, self-employed entrepreneurs, accounting professionals, and others.

As a Young Global Leader, Sara Sutton had the opportunity to contribute to conversations about the future of work and to be included among the many distinguished leaders attending the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos 2016.

Sara Sutton served as a panelist at a national roundtable forum on company policies and attitudes around flexible working. She and leaders from Virgin Pulse, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USDA and 1 Million for Work Flexibility discussed how flexibility is changing the way Americans live and work.